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GA Review

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Nominator: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 00:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 17:53, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll get to this shortly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:53, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Images appropriately licensed
Earwig 16%
The conversion into warships for the River Defense Fleet vessels adding 1 inch (2.5 cm) of iron plating backed by 4 inches (10 cm) of oak planking Missing word?
Link 32-pounder gun and tell readers that it was smoothbore muzzle loader
Proximity alert for the ship's name in the first para of the Plumb Point Bend para. Mix up how you refer to the ship by using pronouns, etc.
became ungrounded awkward
Link salvaged
Substitute barrier for blockade?

Mostly done. I'm still working on turning up a source that repeats the obvious claim that the 32-pounder was smoothbore and muzzle loading; everybody seems to view that as an understood fact. Hog Farm _Talk 02:48, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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